… predisposed to addiction is a controversy that has been debated over the years amongst the scientific community. The Disease Concept suggests that addiction is an inherited disease, where the addict is permanently ill at a genetic level. Another…

… biggest issues in the United States today. The opinion of the nation is split in two, half believing that the right to abort your own child is murder, and the other half believe it to be justified and sometimes even saving the persons life.…

… actually sold drugs? No, not aspirin and Prozac but actual narcotics such as Marijuana, Cocaine and Heroine. What if when an individual turns eighteen or twenty-one he or she would now be able to vote and purchase not only cigarettes and alcohol but…

… important, I wouldn’t really have the proper grasp as to why you should. A few years ago, what was on television that night was important to me, American politics were only the video clips that my father watched on the news before I was able to take…

… procedures" (or "parliamentary law")? The term "parliamentary law" is often described as being "the rules to the game of democracy". Parliamentary law (from now on it will be called "p-law") is also used as the guideline for the making of laws…

… special protection and treatment is deemed necessary for those under 18 accused of committing crimes. Yet, across America prosecutors and legislators are attempting to try more and more juveniles as adults. At the same time, law-abiding adolescents…

… Without government, life would be nasty, brutish, and short. Justice can exist only when there is some systematic means of protecting individual rights, and insofar as the state of nature contains no mechanism of this kind it is by hypothesis lacking…

… unbearable pain or suffering is what is practiced today as Euthanasia. Euthanasia is practiced in all societies, including those that have laws against it. There are many cultures are religions that condemn euthanasia in any form. Is this going to…

… the past year we have pushed aside what started out as a war on terrorism and have chosen to begin a new war. We have chosen to fight a ‘new evil’ as President George W. Bush said in his address to the nation regarding his ‘axis of evil’ last spring.…

… proliferation of guns in the US? Guns are a main cause of death in the United States. Approximately 75 people each week are killed or wounded because of guns. There are many ways to go about bringing that number down, but which way would be most…